Thai Shrimp Salad Appetizer Spoons

Everyone loves a Thai shrimp salad and these little spoons make a great party appetiser. They are easy to eat, super healthy and look stunning on a party platter. Such a great finger food idea.

The fresh Thai shrimp salad is topped with crispy onions and roasted peanuts, giving it a great crunch.

How to serve Shrimp Salad at a party.

Everyone loves Thai flavors, so Thai shrimp salad will always be a hit at parties. But salad isn’t easy to eat when you have a wine glass in one hand and no one wants to put their wine down at a party!

That is what makes these little spoons so much fun. Everything is cut small, making these a single mouthful appetizer.

You can pick one up, eat it, enjoy it and get back to catching up with your friends. PARTY WINNER!!!

You can use little hors d’oeuvres spoons or the slightly larger Asian spoons. They are pretty cheap in Asian supermarkets.

If you can’t find little spoons then you could serve these in small dishes, but that does make it a harder to eat with a wine glass in your hand.

How to make a lime dressing for your Thai shrimp salad.

The dressing is what makes this Thai salad. It is sweet, sour and salty (and very delicious!)

To make the dressing:

Mix, lime juice with fish sauce and sugar.

Then just give it a taste.

You can add extra sugar or lime juice to balance it to your liking.

What size shrimp should you use for Thai Shrimp Salad?

I like to use extra large shrimp for these Thai salad spoons, as they look generous on the spoons. But you could go down to large or medium large.

But when buying shrimp it is much better to buy by the count as each vendor will have a different idea of what extra large and large maybe.

I would suggest looking for a shrimp with 26/30 count per pound. If you can only buy small shrimp (51/60 count) then you might want to add 2 shrimps per spoon.

Enjoy x

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Hi Jan, To prepare them in advance this is what I would do. Make the dressing but keep it seperate. Mix the crispy onions and chopped peanuts together and store in an airtight pot. Construct the spoons without the dressing and without the crispy onions. Cover the spoons until needed. When ready to serve drizzle with the dressing and then top with the crispy onion mixture.

I think if you make the full spoon in advance the salad will lose its vibrance and the crispy onions will go soggy. I hope that helps 😀 And congratulations to the graduating class!

I loved this recipe but changed it up slightly due to what I had on hand. I used pistacio’s instead of peanuts and I only had raw shrimp so we cooked them in lemon and ginger. This was a hit of our meal. Thank you.

Oh I bet that was wonderful with pistachios. They are such a delicious creamy nut. And the addition of the ginger and lemon is perfect. SO HAPPY everyone enjoyed them 😀 😀 And thank you for coming back to comment Cx

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